Despite the young age - as a scientific discipline - labour pedagogy has gained significant
academic achievements that fulfill very important role in the complex of other science related
topics. High activity of the labour educationalists' environment in the Committee of
Pedagogical Sciences PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences), the development of research
personnel, periodicals and publishing companies, numerous seminars and conferences,
national and international projects and thousands of students studying the labour
pedagogy is a concrete evidence of practical usefulness of this kind of scientific
sub discipline.

The real instrument for 33 years (1975-2008) enabling dissemination,
promotion and valorization of knowledge about pedagogy of work is
czasopismo "the journal "Labour Pedagogy". It had two periods of its functioning.
The first covered years 1975-1990 and it was associated with the activities of Institute
of Vocational Training (IKZ) in Warsaw - the first publisher of the journal. The second
phase is being dated from 1991 and it lasts up till today and the publishing duties took
over the Institute for Sustainable Technologies - National Research Institute (IteE-PIB)
in Radom. Today, we can say about continuity of "Labour Pedagogy" as the magazine and
its mission in development of the theory and subordinated practice, including problems
of education through the work, professionalism, vocational training, counseling and
vocational guidance. Labour Pedagogy is a biannual, nation-wide scientific journal. Total accumulated
knowledge base including 51 volumes of journals. We can find there dissertations, the
development of scientific and methodological elaborations, case studies, proposals of
innovative solutions, announcements from examinations and implementations.

The magazine is being addressed in particular to scientific researchers,
academic lecturers and teachers, students, education staff
and public employment services, guidance counselors and specialists in human resources
development.

The "Labour Pedagogy" is on the list of journals published on 15th
November 2007 by the Ministry of Science and higher Education for the parametric
evaluation of research units , with two points allocated (Part B of the list, position 431).

Guidelines for authors of articles considered for publication "Labour Pedagogy":

The journal editorial office welcomes original material in the field of research,
analysis, national and international projects concerning relations: human-job-education.

Manuscripts should be no more than 10 pages in length (30 lines of 60 characters);
information about conferences and book reviews should not exceed 5 pages.

Authors are requested to supply one hard copy of the manuscript-submitted to the
editor or the secretary as well as its electronic version (floppy disc 3/4'', CD-ROM or email).

A manuscript should be written in MS Word 6.0/95 or higher in Times New Roman CE
(M Word 6.0/95, 7.0/97) or Times New Roman (M Word 9.0/2000) 11-point font and single
space between lines.

Manuscripts should include the title, key words describing the content of the paper,
summary (one in Polish and one in English), introduction, main text with subheadings
defining the sections of the paper and the annotations, bibliography.

Required information about the author(s) (author(s) name(s), each author's
professional affiliation, mailing address and email, telephone number and fax number).

Authors receive one copy of the Journal.

The editor reserves the customary right to style and if necessary shorten material
accepted to publication.

Articles are presented in the following chapters:

Thesis

Reports and announcements

Reviews and notes

Events

The articles proposed by the authors are reviewed by the specialists who
are recognized in the scientific environment. The positive review decides to publish the
article in the journal.